Curtain construction



Aug. 27, 1957 F. s. NlcHoLs CURTAIN 4CONSTRUCTION Filed May 24, 1955 gin dlbl y M, ,L fm

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CURTAIN CONSTRUCTION Frederick S. Nichols, Melrose, Mass., assigner to L R. Moulton Co., Inc., Melrose, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application May 24, 1955, Serial No. 510,896

1 Claim. (Cl. 160-348) This invention relates to a curtain of the type generally known as a cafe type curtain, which has a row of decorative scallops cut out of the curtain along its upper edge portion. The present invention relates particularly to a construction of the upper edge of such a curtain which facilitates hanging and arranging the curtain.

Housewives endeavoring to arrange conventional cafe type curtains on the rod find it almost impossible to arrange the material in the desired way because of the present method of attachment to the rod, namely, sliding clips, rings or loops of material arranged along the upper edge portion of the curtain.

It is a principal object of the present invention to provide a curtain of this type which may be readily draped according to ones taste, which will not slide at random anywhere on the curtain rod and which is a complete unit.

This and other objects of the present invention are accomplished by providing a continuous folded web of suitable material stitched along the upper edge of the curtain in such a way as to form a continuous tubular band or rod pocket therealong. The uppermost projections between the scallop cut-out portions are attached to the edge of this band at regular intervals throughout its entire length so that the resulting combination is a complete unit which is not only easier to hang and drape than conventional curtains of the type having decorative scallop cut-outs, but is also easier to launder since it does not have clips, rings, or separate loops of material as do conventional curtains of this type.

Furthermore the continuous tubular band when arranged along a supporting curtain rod will remain in position without sliding.

Thus, when the uppermost projections between the scallop cut-out portions are gathered so that the curtain drapes with natural pleats or flutes in a desired manner, the curtain will remain as draped and the springiness of the material cannot cause the curtain to spread along the rod and dissolve the pleats as in conventional curtains of this type.

The invention will be more clearly understood from the following description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a curtain embodying the present invention and in flat condition.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section taken along the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section taken along the line 3 3 of Fig. l.

Referring now to the drawings, the reference numeral designates the body of a curtain A of the present invention. The curtain A may be of any suitable material such as a Woven fabric.

The body 10 of the curtain A as shown in the drawings is similar to a conventional cafe type curtain and as shown may be formed by doubling over its upper edge portion 12, stitching it down with a row of stitching 13, and cutting out the scallops 14.

The top edge of a conventional cafe type curtain is dened by upper ends 16 of the points of material left between the scallop cut-outs 14 and the conventional cafe type curtain is hung on a curtain rod with clips, rings, or loops of material which are attached to these upper ends 16. These clips, rings, or loops of material, however, slide too easily along the rod so that the curtain will not stay draped in hunched up fluted condition but spreads out to an almost flat condition as seen in Fig. l which presents a shabby unattractive appearance compared with a deep iluted draping. v

According to the construction of the present invention a continuous band 18 of material is attached along the upper ends 16 of the points of material between the scallops 14 so as to provide a continuous rod supporting tubular pocket 19 in which a curtain rod 2t) is received to hang the curtain.

As shown in Fig. 3 the band 18 is a doubled over piece piece of material having its edges on either side of the upper ends 16 and sewn to the ends 16 by a line of stitching 21. The line of stitching 21 is continuous along the edges of the band 18 so that between the ends 16 the edges of the band are sewn together as seen in Fig. 2. Thus the band 18 forms a continuous tubular rod supporting pocket 19 along the top edge of the curtain, which, when the curtain is hunched up along the rod to form decorative flutes, also bunches up and grips the rod 20 and thereby holds the curtain in the position in which it is draped.

As shown in the drawings the band 18 may be made larger than necessary to tit around the rod 20 so that an additional line of stitching 22 may be sewn along the upper edge of the doubled over band to provide a decorative upstanding edge 23.

The fully iluted condition and appearance is best achieved by crowding onto a rod, a curtain, which in its extended or flat condition, has a distance across its top along the band 18 which is about twice the length of the rod. When, for instance, a curtain which is sixty inches along the band 18 is forced onto a thirty inch rod, the band is foreshortened or hunched together, the portions 16 are crowded together, and the curtain below is forced into a truly fluted or overlapping condition in which the unattached portions along the top of the curtain stand outwardly away from the rod and form flutes which are uniform from top to bottom. The foreshortened portions of the band 18 between the scalloped portions 16 along the rod form spacers which cause the portions 16 to lie along the rod at equal intervals so that the iluted curtain below has an even appearance which cannot be achieved when the upwardly extending portions between the scallops in the heretofore known types of cafe curtains are individually attached to the rod as by loops, hooks or rings.

I claim:

A curtain comprising a body portion with scallop portions cut out of its upper edge leaving a plurality of equally spaced apart upwardly extending end portions across its top and a continuous generally flat tubular band extending across the top of the curtain above the body portion and attached at its lower edge to substantially the upper end of each of said upwardly extending end portions, the said curtain, when said tubular portion is placed on a rod which is shorter than the tubular portion, being capable of assuming an evenly spaced fluted condition with the said tubular portion hunched together and spacing said upper end portions in a foreshortened relation along the rod, and with said scallop portions standing outwardly away from both sides of the curtain under the rod.

References Cited in the tile of this `patent UNTED STATES PATENTS 2,410,224 Lepow Oct. 29, 1946 2,533,216 BiXer Dec. 12, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS 424,768 Great Britain Feb. 28, 1935 

